Give a gift that keeps Screaming!

[Necropolis]

Give a Gift That Keeps Them Screaming
The best deal you will ever find on 2012 Season Passes!

A Six Flags Great America Season Pass is one gift that thrills all. Give a Season Pass and get the low Fall price but make no payment until March. No interest, no extra charges for postponing payment.

-Unlimited visits to the park from May through October
-Prices on 2012 Passes are guaranteed never to be lower
-Pay absolutely nothing until March 2012
-Printable holiday voucher suitable for gift giving

Season Passes are just $64.99 each when you buy four or more (just $5 more than the cost of a regular, full-price ticket) Buy online now and wrap up your gift giving today!

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*This special price and the option to postpone payment until March is only available through this special online offer and will expire on December 31, 2011. Visit the web site for disclaimers, details and other relevant restrictions.

[CstrFan512]

I noticed as i filled out my info this year, that all the coupons that are usually given to you in the book will be e-mailed to you this year. This works for me because i would always just bring my wallet to the park and not the book. Looks like Six Flags is going paper-less.

[Ilovthevu']

It's about saving money on Six Flag's part. That's all it is really. They probably print out some 5,000 - 10,000 books per park. I'm not sure what the real numbers are for season pass holders, but there have to be a bunch of people. I don't know how much books cost either, but if it's 50 cents a book * 10,000 books, that's $5,000 for books for one park alone. I don't like this idea because printing a number of coupons is not cheap because ink is not that cheap.

So, really what the park is doing is giving the expenses to the people now instead of themselves if the consumer prints out coupons. So, I don't like this idea, but considering I don't use that many of their coupons, it won't impact me a ton. However, I'm sure there are people out there using a lot of those coupons, and how much is the ink bill going to cost them compared to last year?

A pet-peeve for me regarding printable coupons in general is that some of these companies (particularly restaurants) decide that they are going to have the biggest coupons known to man, and they want the whole thing printed up. To save $5 on something, and people are wasting how much on ink for goodness sakes. That really bugs me. For groceries, they have stuff like save 50 cents and $1, and I don't get the point if the ink on the coupon is close to 50 cents plus a person's time to print it out. Seems like a waste to me.

[UWW-10]

^You can also set your printer settings to print using minimal ink and a fast spool setting. Also, with Smartphone technology, people just pull up their coupons on them and once the codes are typed in, it no longer matters how many people the sender gives it to because it's void (not that I expect Six Flags to be that ahead of the ballpark).

Why can't they just do what Cedar Fair does and just make the perks general enough so that when you show your pass, you get the deal? I know Six Flags has started this with some of the deals they have but why not go to all of them. You can then post the information to the website so everyone has access and then let it be up to the individual person if they feel the need to print the sheet out to remember the perks. Quite honestly, most of the deals in the book became pretty bogus over the years anyways. $1 off a large soda that has a regular price of $5.85 is not a deal in my mind.